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    Default Requirement for sponsor company

    Hi all,

    My friend told me that to be eligible for supporting an employee for residency, the company must have at least 2 years of operation. Is that true? I tried to find a statement about that in the immigration website but found nothing.

    Thanks

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    Here https://www.immigration.govt.nz/opsmanual/34388.htm are the requirements. As you can see, there is no mention of a qualifying time for the company. There have been many people on the forum who got their visa due to a job offer from a start-up or other quite new employer. INZ always, if they haven't had previous dealings with an employer, check them out to make sure they are on a firm financial footing, making as sure as possible that the new visa holder isn't going to be left stranded by an employer going bust. For a new company without a long business history to show, this means they have to share their business plan and details of their finances with INZ, but this is all kept private from the employee.

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    Many thanks JandM for the link and detailed explanation. Btw you mentioned about employer going bust, can I have another question, if the employer go bust and he establishes a new company then supports his employee under that company, is there any chance that INZ will know that he used to have another company before which has been bankrupted? Beacause I think if so it will have negative effects on the application

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    INZ have very wide powers of investigation, and I think it would almost certainly come to light if a company's owner had a difficult past record.

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